Hot on the Heels of Copy Fail, New Linux Bugs Grant Root Privileges

Additional Linux privilege escalation exploits related to long-existing bugs have been disclosed, so patch ASAP.

Chinese hackers target telcos with new Linux, Windows malware

A Chinese cyber-espionage campaign has been targeting telecommunications providers with newly discovered Linux and Windows ...
Infosecurity Magazine

Nine-Year-Old Linux Kernel Flaw Leaks SSH Keys and Password Hashes

A nine-year-old logic flaw in the Linux kernel's process trace (ptrace) path has been discovered that could let unprivileged ...
Tech Xplore

Crashes with consequences: Serial code-reuse attack SFOP breaks Intel CET in Linux

A code-reuse attack named "Segmentation Fault Oriented Programming (SFOP)" exploits weaknesses in signal handling and Intel ...

Exploit released for new PinTheft Arch Linux root escalation flaw

PinTheft, a recently patched Linux privilege escalation vulnerability, now has a publicly available proof-of-concept (PoC) ...
InfoQ

Kernel-Level Ground Truth: Why eBPF is Replacing User-Space Agents for Security Observability

BPF is emerging as a preferred method for security observability over traditional user-space agents. By attaching probes ...
Design-Reuse

Detect, Diagnose, and Debug using Sensors and Functional Monitoring

Modern AI workloads drive an extremely "spiky" power profile where current demands surge to hundreds of Amps within nanoseconds, clashing with the tighter operating ranges of advanced process nodes as ...